PROJECT: Already Beginning Concepts (ABC0)

Corning Community College

CSCS1320 C/C++ Programming

PROJECT: Already Beginning Concepts (ABC0)

OBJECTIVE

To get started on the course and semester. Bootstrap your access and configuration of various resources, following instructions, contributing to documentation, and asking questions in the discord.

EDIT

You will want to go here to edit and fill in the various sections of the document:

https://lab46.g7n.org/notes/cprog/fall2023/projects/abc0

ABC0 documentation

Tasks

Get on discord and into class channels

Log into Lab46 (shell)

Log into Lab46 by opening a terminal. To do this open the start button for Windows and type in CMD for command prompt. On Linux, travel to Applications, System, and open a terminal. Then, input the command “ssh user@lab46.g7n.org”, where “user” is your username. It'll ask you to verify connecting to the host, respond yes. It will ask for a password afterwards and it won't show anything as you type it for security purposes. Congratulations! You are now logged into Lab46. You may disconnect by typing the “exit” command.

Clone lab46 semester repo on lab46

The version control we use is mercurial, so the command is “hg” rather than “git”. The other commands, such as “clone”, “pull”, “push”, and etc. are the same. The commands in order to clone (credit to Jess) are below:

hg clone ssh:/ /USER@lab46.g7n.orgvar/repos/hg/user/USER into ~/src hg clone ssh:/ /USER@lab46.g7n.orgvar/repos/hg/user/USER/fall2023 into ~/src/fall2023

In order to get into src, input cd src.

Then, you're going to want to make the directories for CPROG. You can do this using the mkdir command. “mkdir cprog”. You can verify you've done this correctly by putting in ls, which will list the directories. :)

In case of explosion, you can also use the command “fixrepo” which will automatically make everything nice, so…

Log into Lab46 wiki

Set up personal development system

Clone lab46 semester repo on your system

Create info.text file with personal information (name, email, program, discord username, etc...)

You can do this by doing echo “whatever you want” > textfilename.txt

Create and execute hello.c

Locate journal and customize title and intro

The journal is to the left of the screen and underneath content on the left side of the screen towards the top of this web page.

SUBMISSION

To be successful in this project, the following criteria (or their equivalent) must be met:

Project must be submit on time, by the deadline.
- Late submissions will lose 33% credit per day, with the submission window closing on the 3rd day following the deadline.
All code must compile cleanly (no warnings or errors)
- Compile with the -Wall and –std=gnu18 compiler flags
- all requested functionality must conform to stated requirements (either on this document or in a comment banner in source code files themselves).
Executed programs must display in a manner similar to provided output
- output formatted, where applicable, must match that of project requirements
Processing must be correct based on input given and output requested
Output, if applicable, must be correct based on values input
Code must be nicely and consistently indented
Code must be consistently written, to strive for readability from having a consistent style throughout
Code must be commented
- Any “to be implemented” comments MUST be removed
  - these “to be implemented” comments, if still present at evaluation time, will result in points being deducted.
  - Sufficient comments explaining the point of provided logic MUST be present
No global variables (without instructor approval), no goto statements, no calling of main()!
Track/version the source code in your lab46 semester repository
Submit a copy of your source code to me using the submit tool (make submit on lab46 will do this) by the deadline.

Submit Tool Usage

Let's say you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following:

lab46:~/src/SEMESTER/DESIG/PROJECT$ submit DESIG PROJECT file1 file2 file3 ... fileN

You should get some sort of confirmation indicating successful submission if all went according to plan. If not, check for typos and or locational mismatches.

RUBRIC

I'll be evaluating the project based on the following criteria:

13:abc0:final tally of results (13/13)
*:abc0:submitted information for project by duedate [3/3]
*:abc0:got situated in and used class discord [3/3]
*:abc0:contributed to project documentation [3/3]
*:abc0:committed project related changes to semester repo [4/4]

Pertaining to the collaborative authoring of project documentation

each class member is to participate in the contribution of relevant information and formatting of the documentation
- minimal member contributions consist of:
  - near the class average edits (a value of at least four productive edits)
  - near the average class content change average (a value of at least 128 bytes (absolute value of data content change))
  - near the class content contribution average (a value of at least 1kiB)
  - no zero-sum commits (adding in one commit then later removing in its entirety for the sake of satisfying edit requirements)
- adding and formatting data in an organized fashion, aiming to create an informative and readable document that anyone in the class can reference
- content contributions will be factored into a documentation coefficient, a value multiplied against your actual project submission to influence the end result:
  - no contributions, co-efficient is 0.50
  - less than minimum contributions is 0.75
  - met minimum contribution threshold is 1.00

Additionally

Solutions not abiding by spirit of project will be subject to a 50% overall deduction
Solutions not utilizing descriptive why and how comments will be subject to a 25% overall deduction
Solutions not utilizing indentation to promote scope and clarity or otherwise maintaining consistency in code style and presentation will be subject to a 25% overall deduction
Solutions not organized and easy to read (assume a terminal at least 90 characters wide, 40 characters tall) are subject to a 25% overall deduction

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